re: Elon Squid Game: New email to the engineering team - Show up on 10th floor at 2:00pm today

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this is gonna send whatiknowsofar and bronc into the stratosphere

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Are you under some weird impression I’m emotionally invested in this like you? I’m here for the shitshow, not to vicariously try and live out my ideological grievances through a billionaire that doesn’t give a shite about you….


Hot take on the actual thread: this is either evidence of Musk losing grip with reality or a honey trap(most likely). Though in either case it’s gonna create even more chaos than has already been brought…

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I'm not sure Musk even knows what his endgame is at this point.

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With regards to the current chaos, consider that a strong CEO with a good team and delegation skills can get his team aligned to his vision to the point that the company acts like a well-oiled machine even when he steps away (much like the Brian Kelly "alignment" jokes on the Rant). In contrast, Elon has stepped into a company that is way out of alignment with his values and vision, with many of the employees openly hating him.

I, among others, believe it was not a coincidence that Musk made his initial offer to buy Twitter shortly after Twitter banned the Babylon Bee. (Musk had done an interview with the Bee maybe a couple months before that, and upon the Bee beeing banned, I think he tweeted something to the effect that something has to be done about that [the unfairness of it] or about free speech.)

His endgame, as I see it, has a few objectives:
1) Cut costs. Twitter is losing money and arguably has too many employees for what they do (many of whom hate Musk or are otherwise not aligned to his vision).

2) Free speech angle. I think (without proof) that Musk is rather anti-PC and would genuinely like to see open discourse. And though he's not a conservative, he seems to disapprove of silencing conservative voices.

3) He has spoken of wanting to make a super-app of sorts (can't remember, but think Chinese WeChat is the model he referred to) that is not only a social media platform, but includes a payment system and other features. Once he tears down the current culture, I would expect him to build back lean towards this goal with an eye on trying to turn a profit.

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I'm not sure Musk even knows what his endgame is at this point.

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he said today he will fire 75% of the remaining employees to rid the company of woke employees

that sounds like a pretty clear enough vision message to me

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through a billionaire that doesn’t give a shite about you….

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Your envy is palpable

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I don’t know much about any of this but it seems to me that Elon is either
A) a mad genius

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B)destroying the company because he’s overreacting to his frick up of buying a shitty overvalued company.

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That’s why you sell insurance for a
Living.

Has Elon ever done anything without making money as the end game? He sees the bloat and waste and is eliminating it.

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I truly don't understand why people like the poster Bronc are so ate up over what Elon is doing.

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Imagine every government employee getting this type of notice. Absolute panic. That's how you drain the swamp. Install "doers" as appointed agency heads

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Why did you put doers in quotations and why does everyone keep comparing government to for-profit businesses?

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I truly don't understand why people like the poster Bronc are so ate up over what Elon is doing.

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I mean you also don’t understand how vaccines and blood transfusions work, so no real shock there lol